Quest Overseas - Gap Year Travel

Written by an anonymous writer - anyone willing to own up to it???

Chapter One: Death Road

It was a hot sunny day, the perfect day to die on death road, but luckily that didn't happen.

Our team in Lima has started working in Villa Maria recently at our children's project. One of their first jobs was to present a donation of football strips from Burgess Hill Town Football Club to a local team.

Just the first 5 days, but what a roller coaster! Written by Alicia Machin, very entertaining.

WEDNESDAY 24TH FEBRUARY; to Lima and the slums! We got bus to the airport at 5.30 I´m the luckiest person - was upgraded to First Class and given an invitation to the VIP lounge. I was so smug and smiling like a Cheshire cat! Free food and drinks and internet! However it wasn´t so great as our flight was delayed and delayed until finally at about midnight they eventually said we couldn´t fly until tomorrow. We were taken to Holiday Inn which was incredulously luxurious.... enormous double beds and SO comfortable although we had to be up at quarter to 5 so had hardly any sleep.

Written by our resident hospital inspector Joe.

I knew I´d end up getting a mammoth entry to write! Anyway, Monday 15th was a teacher swap. Lucky for some, not so for others. In the afternoon, we went on an unforgettable trip to a fake equator and then the real one. At the fake equator, most of the group had a quick glance at the equator monument and then stocked up on ´Carioca´. Otherwise known as spray foam. What ensued was a battle, nay, war, of global proportions. Quest vs Ecuador sounds unfair, but we had good supplies. The foam got everywhere. Hair, eyes, ears, you name it, it was foamed! The riot culminated with a guerilla style assault on an unsuspecting Aaron who was pursued for a long while but eventually taken down.

Well it's been a while since we've heard from our intrepid team in Bolivia, they've been camped out in the jungle slaving away on a new enclosure for a puma in our Bolivian Animal Sanctuary Project. Back in civilisation for a couple of days before heading out to another of the sanctuary locations and they very kindly sent us a few photos of their exploits. Above is a very proud group having made some serious progress on a new enclosure for Luna the puma.